The best of 2012

• Best albums of 2012, No 5: Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, MAAD City

  

  Kieran Yates: The hip-hop album of the year was the tale of a journey from sin to repentance among the temptations of California

  • No 6: Tame Impala – Lonerism
  • No 7: Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
  • No 8: The xx – Coexist
  • No 9: Hot Chip – In Our Heads
  • No 10: Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
  • Best albums of 2012: 20–11
  • Best albums of 2012: 40-21

• The 10 best films of 2012, No 5 – Holy Motors

  

  Peter Bradshaw: An uproariously illogical limo-ride through Paris screeches in at No 5 in our pick of the year's most flavoursome flicks

  • No 6: This Is Not a Film
  • No 7: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • No 8: Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • No 9: Alps
  • No 10: The Queen of Versailles

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  10 Dec 2012: Michael Grandage's joyous revival is a heady mix of personal memoir, musical parody and jaundiced account of postwar colonial politics
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  10 Dec 2012: Sam Wollaston: So who did the murders that got Rex banged up for 12 years? And what exactly is a poison tree? I'm still none the wiser
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  Arabian Nights – review

  
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  Amy Leach's imaginative production is an exemplar of visual storytelling in which no magical location is beyond the bounds of ingenuity, writes Alfred Hickling

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